Lorelai: He's going down.
Rory: I hate to bring this up.
Lorelai: What?
Rory: Kirk has very little in his life.
Lorelai: Uh-huh.
Rory: He has no career, no girlfriend, no pet, no car. He lives with his mother, she won't even let him have his own key. The only thing he does have in his whole lonely pathetic existence is this marathon. If we win, if we take him down, if we take away that last little piece of dignity, then we leave him with nothing.
Lorelai: I wonder if he'll cry.
Rory: My mother, the Howard Roark of Stars Hollow.